Director and writer Derviş Zaim is the guest of ITEF 2022 with his first novel Ares Wonderland and his latest novel Rüyet, for which he received the Yunus Nadi Award. In the timeless geography of Derviş Zaim, these two novels and the writing adventure of the author, which center on the storytelling impulse in the Thousand and One Nights tales and lean on both Eastern and Western cultures with myths, symbols and rituals, will be discussed under the moderation of writer Merve Küçüksarp. In the light of these two novels, we will listen to various topics such as creating a narrative, the tension between the West and the East in Turkish novels, and the relationship between texts in postmodern literature, with the author's own words.

"Real museums are places where Time turns into space," says Orhan Pamuk in the 83rd episode of the Museum of Innocence. Benjamin also uses the phrase "past transformed into space" in his famous work Passages. If we look at it from these two perspectives, Istanbul is a museum. It offers us the opportunity to travel in time with its buildings, passages and courtyards bearing the traces of the past. It is easy to feel the memory-space relationship that stimulates the author's creativity as we wander between the buildings of Beyoğlu. We will look at the structures around Galata square by imagining "the past turned into a place" and then our imagination fills. We will talk, write and read, if we wish, how to set up a story based on images.

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Aminder and writer-translator İrem Uzunhasanoğlu will be speaking on the stage of ITEF 2022 on this comic book, which describes a world model where men disappear due to genetic reasons and women dominate. They will touch on the power arising from women's solidarity, the importance of togetherness and different forms of existence, where feminist and queer movements have evolved in the modern world, and how women position themselves in the new world order.

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This time, Dag Solstad is meeting with actor and writer Emir Çubukçu on the stage of ITEF 2022. They will touch on the irony in Solstad's literature and the political and theatrical expressions in his works. Their characters will discuss the differences in the narratives of both past and present books, by addressing the pain they feel from being themselves and their existence, as well as the problems created by the relationship styles of closed Northern societies.

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Different author personas, current trends in auto-fiction and editing, production pains, texts that were never written as a platonic love… Three names of contemporary Turkish literature, Selim Bektaş with his experimental and absurd novels, Firdevs Ev with his magical-realistic and dark narrative, Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu, who emphasizes the relationship between text and visuals in his stories, and Berkan M. Şimşek will come together. The place of the author's self-love in literary writing will be discussed; The dynamics of the tripartite relationship between the author, the text and the reader and the writing processes will be discussed.

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Serbian writer Marco Dinic, who impressively wrote about the breakup of Yugoslavia, broken family ties, migration, hatred, anger and disbelief that overshadowed lives in his first novel, Beautiful Days, will answer Serda Kranda Kapucuoğlu's questions at ITEF 2022. They will cover many issues from the individual to the society, from the society to the geography and will offer a satisfying conversation on changes, reactions and differences.

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They will talk with Sibel Oral about the famous singer Kalben's first novel, The Fire of the Old World, in which she also declared her love for literature, and how music and literature feed each other in her songs.

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Could the way not to feel equal to zero or nonexistent is to be noticed by others as well as by noticing yourself? Just like the moment when we realize that we never grew up alone, and witness early on the illusion and vulnerability of loneliness. Just as we realize one day that we are bodies that constantly connect with nature and humans, beyond emotions and sounds, and that we need this connection... In this conversation, moderated by Mehmet Erkurt, with the White Raven Award-winning author, doctor and psychoanalyst Luigi Ballerini, the author's novels will be discussed. We will talk about the experience of being a child and young person, the strength that increases with solidarity, the healing and growing power of the relationship established with life.

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The Italian writer Giulio Cavalli, who was translated into Turkish for the first time with his novel Wave, touches on global issues such as human trafficking, war and poverty with his rich descriptions of the dystopia he founded. Cavalli, who will be on the stage of ITEF 2022 with Nermin Mollaoğlu who is the founder of Kalem Agency, reflects striking facts to the readers in this novel.

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Aminder Dhaliwal takes us to a world where men have become extinct due to a genetic anomaly in the Women's Realm and the modern world has been razed to the ground. How can one survive after such a destruction? Of course with love! Aminder Dhaliwal and Seçil Epik are having a conversation about loving themselves, women and a new world, based on this graphic novel in which women who managed to survive, first give birth to themselves and then society. We are coming together on Thursday, June 8th, for a love and compassion-oriented future vision of solidarity, learning and discovery from each other.

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